On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 13:59, joost wrote:
> when I use the command 'df' on the developer board I get the next information:
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/flash3 3168 3168 0 100% /
> /dev/flash2 192 32 160 17% /mnt/flash
> tmpfs 3472 184 3288 5% /var
>
> As you can see I have more than 3 MB of free space on the RAM disk ( /var ).
> Is this memory reserved for the RAM disk, or can it also be used by the CPU?
> If it cannot be used by the CPU, how can I free up this memory? I don't need
> such a big RAM disk.
>
> Thanks,
> Joost
tmpfs grows and shrinks as needed. See
os/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt.
Best regards
/Jonas